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Coffs Harbour Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Coffs Harbour, Australia
Contiki Tour, Day 1
... TO THIS ONE!!!!! -Most embarrassing moment -Favourite colour, animal and other such questions. Afterwards, we finally arrived in Coffs Harbour; only to find out we're staying in a massive resort. My understanding was that we would be ...
Day 201
Today i met another two friends of Georgina and Emma, mimi and Julia who were both Swedish. We all decided to have breakfast the go to Marine Magic where we would see some dolphins and seals, finally lol, have to resort to seeing them here seeing the ...
Surf's Up - Spot X Surf Camp
To begin the next leg of our journey, Barb woke up early and drove us to the bus station in Byron on her way to the gym. We got onto the bus and slept for the majority of our journey to our next destination: Spot X Surf Camp. Included ...
On our way back
... few houses and a tavern. Back on the Pacfic highway (which isnt as you would think a coastal route) Rodge drove all the way back to Coffs harbour. Dinner was takeaway pizza on the beach and then we got an early night as another 400k to drive ...
Hangin' with Humpies
Winding down both our trip and the east coast of Australia, we next arrived at Coffs Harbour-- our first stop in the State of New South Wales. For whatever reason, Coffs Harbour has become known for its "Big Banana"-a puny sized replica which the boys ...
Coffs Harbour to Byron Bay
... too are the humpback whale population, on their annual migration to the great barrier reef where they give birth each year. So in Coffs Harbour we went out on a boat for some whale watching. Unfortunately there was no jumping over our heads 'Free Willy' ...
House-sitting in paradise
We're in Coffs Harbour for about 3 weeks looking after a house for friends. It's perched on the side of a mountain with rainforest around 3 1/2 sides and the ocean view in front. It's very nice but after a week, we're itching to get on the road again. ...
Coffs Harbour
Today was a good day! I managed to find an Ice Rink here in Coffs Harbour. The rink is like 3/4 the size of ours back home, ha ha but the ice was actually in really good condition. It's the only rink in the North Coast area. I dropped ...
The Stewarts invade Coffs
Well we arrived in Coffs and found the Park Beach Holiday Park. The parks on the beach near the surf club and close the the big shopping area. Yeah said Julie....So after shopping and stuff... Julie came up with a winning idea, lets go to the ...
Bats Roos and didgeridoos
... they knew it was the Gravesend Temple. Supplies were picked up at a brand new Coles on the way into Coffs Harbour and the picnic table established on the look out at Sawtell overlooking yet more magnificent beaches and Bongil Bongil National ...
Canberra en nieuwe WWOOF-host
... heel lang! Gelukkig werd ik al opgewacht toen ik aankwam. Ik zit nu namelijk bij een andere WWOOF-plek, iets van 10 km vanaf Coffs Harbour, 500 km boven Sydney. De eigenaar is een zekere Tony, iets van 71 jaar oud, die volgens mij aardig wat geld heeft ...
Coffs Harbour
In Coffs Harbour I felt a little bit home when passing Clog Barn a miniature of a Dutch Village and I've seen one of the most beautiful beaches so far; Diggers Beach. ...
our time in coffs
... some of the guys and then headed to bed. Today we got up and checked out then had lunch and went for a walk to the harbour and along the jetty, there were loadsa people jetty jumping which looked really fun! We came back and watched 'get him to the ...
Coffs Harbour and Port MacQuarie...
We stayed at the Big Banana... Australia has this fascination with Big items - Pineapple, Strawberry, Shrimp - Sarah and Donovan have photos of them all... I have avoided them... BUT they made us stay at the banana. To be fair it was a very nice ...
Dive 1 - First day at sea, Mutton Bird Island
This was the first dive of my PADI Open Water course. After spending the whole of the previous day in the pool learning how to breathe underwater we headed out to sea for our first dive. You can actually walk to Mutton Bird Island along a ...
A couple of rainy days....
... for coffee and a cake... which became a bit of a daily routine during the rainy days. We think we managed to cover the whole of Coffs Harbour on bikes today but it was good fun!! A worth a well earner (cold) shower when we got in! It was pizza night in ...
Yey for the sunshine!!!
Hello again, Well we are now in a nice place called Coffs Harbour about 7 hours drive from Newcastle where we last left you. Arrived a couple of days ago and have been generally walking around and exploring the area. Went on a great walk along the ...
03/05/2010 Byron Bay and Coffs Harbour
... a fish burger in a restaurant on the beachfront and stayed for an hour or so. Then back on the road, heading for Coffs Harbour. The countryside is beautiful with many sugarcane farms and the road occasionally passing closely to the sea for a great view. ...
Perfect pool weather
... a ball in the pool and jumping pillow with them. Many of them are from properties and towns way out west. Having lived in Coffs Harbour in the mid 90's I noticed lots of changes in the town, the beaches are still as beautiful as ever. We took ...
Learning to Surf
... near by city) to pick up some alcoholic beverages for the surf party at night. I picked up a 6 pack of XXXX (a popular beer in Australia) for $17. It is not cheap to drink in Australia. We got back and got ready for our second lesson of the day. The ...
The Big Banana!
Day four of the camper van road trip. We headed to Coffs Harbour today. We had read in the lonely planet about the big banana, that is a must see for tourists. We weren't quite sure what to expect as we drove up to it. But, there ...
Day 18: Mon Oct 4
... .. It was still raining when Ian got up almost 3 hours later. Still raining at 11 am when we went for a drive around Coffs Harbour (the publicity shots and website of Coffs suggest that the sun shines almost every day). Still raining at about 12:30 pm ...
Coffs Harbour
Moved on to Coffs Harbour. Long long drive.... Motel fine.......another microwave dinner ....Coffs Harbour larger and again lovely beaches. We seem to have brought the rain with us . Just one night here and moving ...
The Big Banana is not that big....
Coffs Harbour was very nice, we had this lovely lunch by the harbour though I wasn't happy - they forgot my chips with this fab burger and then gave my chips to this family who, in turn, accepted them! Grrrrr Rant over now :) Nice stay, ...
Surf alert!
... way up to Cairns in the north in 14 days. During those 14 days we are going to be stopping at Port Stephens, Coffs Harbour, Surfers Paradise (wow!), Fraser Island, Rockhampton, Long Island and Whitsundays for a couple days of sailing. Our group ...
Cangurolandia me encanto
Australia un pais moderno y multicultural. Me deje seducir por sus hermosas playas casi pristinas. Su gente muy calida y alegre, ellos siempre tienen tiempo para una cerveza bajo el ...
von Sydney nach Brisbane
... schon nicht mehr sehen, aber die Steckdosen dort sind eben fuer Backpacker Gold wert. Es geht immer weiter Richtung Norden. Naechster Stop: Coffs Harbour. Dort finden wir ein Schild. WhaleWatching fuer nur $25, wenn man zu dritt ist. Also muss ich mit. ...
Coffs Harbour
After a fine lunch we set off for Coffs Harbour. We were making good time then TomTom sent us off the Pacific Hwy into a forest. We were dubious but it proved to be a fabulous scenic drive cutting out Grafton, the major town the Highway passes through. We ...